最初の日本、鳥島が見えてきました！
3時間後くらいには通過予定です。
We now can see Torishima Island, "first Japan" since
we left Hawaii. We will pass it about 3 hours later.

昨日は高く飛び跳ねる魚の大群に遭遇しました。
カツオかマグロ？
高いのでは1m以上ジャンプしていて、海老反りというか
スノーボードのジャンプみたいな格好でかっこよく空中でポーズ決めてました。
そこにイルカが食事に登場。食物連鎖の現場を見ました。
We saw a lot of fishes, maybe tunas or bonitos jumping high.
They pose like a snow boarder in the air. Some of them jump over 1meter.
Then dolohins came to eat them. We came across the scene of a food chain.

We are now 316miles to go. I want to say we'll arrive at Laguna Marina on
Saturday,
but maybe not. There is going to be 20-25kt(max30kt) South West wind over
tonight to tomorrow. We might have to wait the wind go through.
It seems it is not that easy to go back to Japan.
I kind of already forgot how the way from Japan to LA was hard sometimes
because
the way from Hawaii has been so nice, but I think I'll remember it.

こうきちさんが
「”最後の努力”を写真に収めてあげよう」と
私のオール手ぬぐいプロテクトの顔を写真に撮ってくれました。
Kokichi took a picture of me protecting my face with
"tenugui"(Japanese traditional towel), saying "I'm going take picture of
you putting final effort on protecting the sun"

手ぬぐい、洋上で大活躍です。
首に巻くもよし、顔を覆うもよし。
顔を覆っても息がしやすいです。
長さもタオルよりちょっと長めで使いやすいし、薄くて乾きやすい！
Tenugui is so useful on the boat.
You can wear it around your neck, cover your face like me, and some other
ways.
The length is linger than ordinary towels and it is easy to dry because it
is light.

南の風があるうちに、なるべくなるべく西に行って最後に南西の風で北上、
と考えていましたが思ったより早く南西の風が来てしまってます。
ウェーポイントにしていた太平洋上に突如として聳え立つ「ソウフ岩」、
見れなさそうです。かなり楽しみにしてたのに残念。
We have been trying to go West as far as we can while there is South wind
before the wind shifts to South West. But the SW wind has come earlier than
we thought.

ここ３－４日、逆潮がすごいです。1-1.5ktの逆潮。
積算で1日分くらい損してる感じです。
There have been reverse current for these 3-4 days.
We have lost about a day in total because of the current.